This photo shows Tremont Presbyterian Church and the buildings
around it in 1985. My parents were married there, I was
baptised there, and I'm sorry to say I haven't been back since I
took this photo!

--Stephen S.

This 1985 photo was taken in St. James Park looking toward
Jerome Avenue and the 4 elevated train. When I was about six
years old, my friends and I were left inside the red brick
building a few mornings a week for a kind of nursery school
where we played and enjoyed various arts and crafts. We
participated in a Maypole dance where the flag pole is. That
was in the sixties and I often wondered how long afterwards that
continued.

--Stephen S.

This is a 1985 view of Walton Avenue looking south toward East
184th Street. For a few years as a child I lived on the
fourth floor of the apartment house on the corner which was 56
East 184th Street, Walton Court. The beige building
opposite went through a number of incarnations and looked
temporarily forlorn when this photo was taken.

--Stephen S.

This 1985 photo shows Walton Avenue looking north towards
Fordham Road from near the corner of East 184th Street.

--Stephen S.

This 1985 photo shows the Fordham Road station of the Jerome
Avenue elevated train looking south (downtown) past P.S. 33 on
the left.

--Stephen S.

Ehring's Tavern on the corner of 231st Street and Godwin Terrace,
circa 1940.

--Robert S.

This photo was taken from the upper platform of the Gun Hill
Road subway station, ca. 1938, looking east along Gun Hill
Road. The first cross street (foreground) is Cruger Avenue.
The vacant lot in the foreground is the future home of Gun
Hill Houses (my old home). The projects were completed in
1950. The portion of Cruger Avenue seen in the picture was
covered over by Gun Hill Houses, so Cruger Avenue effectively
ended at Magenta Street to the south. The cross street right
next to the church is Holland Avenue. The church is The
Immaculate Conception Church, completed in 1925. Behind the
church are its monastery and grounds. To the right of the
church visible just below the crest of the roof is Evander
Childs High School. Since I grew up in Gun Hill Houses, and
my 8th floor window faced Holland Avenue, this was basically
my view. I could see Long Island Sound. Approximately thirty
years after the photo was taken, Co-op City would occupy the
far horizon.

--Lou Cubello

This is Magenta Street at Barker Avenue, looking east towards
White Plains Road, ca. 1938. The school in the rear of the
picture is P.S. 41 on Olinville Avenue, my old elementary
school. This area is part of the old village of Olinville,
and hasn't changed much since the picture was taken.

--Lou Cubello

In the 1950s my dad took this photo of the corner of University
Avenue and West 174th Street, showcasing our neighborhood candy-
store, Eddie's Candy Store & Luncheonette.

--Barry Bealick

Standing in front of the Loews Elsmere Theater on Crotona
Parkway is my Ma, Shirley Pasternak. She lived at 1922 Crotona
Parkway next door to Saint Thomas Aquinas Church. This photo
was taken in 1947 when my Ma was 17. She lived on the block
until 1961.